[Open Babel] xyz oscillating canonical

2019-12-09 Thread Michael Brunsteiner via OpenBabel-discuss
hi, using OB I've encountered some rather unexpected behavior whentrying to use the --canonical flag: If I apply the babel (or obabel) command with the --canonical flag repeatedly to the same structure I get different results e.g., if i start with a molecule can-gefitinib.xyz a small molecule d

Re: [Open Babel] xyz oscillating canonical

2019-12-09 Thread Geoffrey Hutchison
> I tried this with mdl mol files and here the result is as expected (all files > identical), > so this might occur with xyz files only, but since no warning is issued when > combining > xyz files and the --canonical flag this is rather dangerous.. I'm not sure where you would give such a warni